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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「描頭畫角」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Learn about the idiom 「描頭畫角」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor that is deliberate imitation and lacks originality.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

miáo tóu huà jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

miu4 tau4 wa2/waak6 gok3

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